STARSurg: The first student-led collaborative
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STARSurg is the first student-led collaborative to form. This UK based network of medical students, only a year old has managed to deliver a multi-centre national project, and is inviting medical students from the UK and Ireland to take part! To find out more, please read these slides and visit www.starsurg.org You can also email us at [email protected]
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Student Audit and Research in Surgery National Collaborative Research Group
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Medical Student Research• Why participate in research?
– “Doctors as clinicians.. Doctors as Scientists..” (1)
– Professional and personal development
• Is student research important? – Yes– Evidence-based medicine– Heparin, Insulin, Sino-Atrial Node – student discoveries! (2)
• Is participation easy? – Not currently– Many obstacles exist (3)
(1) Tomorrow’s Doctors 2009(2) Stringer et al 2009(3) Nikkar-Esfahani et al. 2012
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Principles of STARSurg
• Empower student researchers
• Facilitate research training
• Build a culture of collaboration
• Promote evidence-based practice
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What to expect:
• National, student-led project
• Bi-annual research training meetings―Ethics & Research governance―Data collection and analysis―Paper review and critique
• Online research training modules
• Signposting to further opportunities
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Why get involved?
• Transferable skills
• Learn about audit and research
• Evidence of participation in audit
• PubMed citable authorship
• CV enhancement
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The STARSurg Model
Steering Committee
Regional Co-ordinators
Collaborators
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STARSurg 2013
• 253 student collaborators
• 31/33 medical schools represented
• Data delivered from 109 hospitals
• Published in British Journal of Surgery
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STARSurg 2013“Impact of postoperative non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on adverse
events after gastrointestinal surgery”
British Journal of Surgery (Impact Factor: 5.21; top-5 world surgical journal)
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PubMed Citable
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25091299
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STARSurg 2014
All Medical Schools in UK & Ireland
For more information visit our website!
New Initiatives• Online monthly Twitter Journal Club
• Research Skills taught course
• Buddy Scheme available to those who collaborate• Aim to link students into post-graduate collaboratives
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